Attack at Iraq police celebration kills 29

TWO suicide bombers wearing police uniforms and holding security passes tried to attack National Police Day celebrations yesterday, with police shooting one to death and the other exploding his vest, killing 29 people.

The US ambassador and Iraq’s interior and defence ministers were in attendance but far from the attacks.

An Internet statement by Abu Musab al-Zarqawi in the name of his al-Qaida in Iraq terrorist group rebuked Sunni Arabs for taking part in last month’s parliamentary elections, saying they had “thrown a rope” to save US policy.